A medical angle to recent and past mainstream media and local news with a view to highlight lessions from the story that can help good health as well as strategic leadership insights into everyday things.
Life isn’t fair, it has never been. That is perhaps the best way to introduce a skin disease that is caused not by germs but by your body fighting itself. After the self-destruction exercise, the body leaves behind a skin lesion that is a clearly demarcated patch with silvery white scales that might itch although some never itch at all. Continue reading Living with Psoriasis
Just to put things into perspective- SAA had received more than R30bn (approximately, US$3 billion) in government guarantees and loans from the Government of South Africa since 1999. Recent financial reports indicate that the SAA had no equity and was surviving on R14.5bn (approximately, US$1.5 billion) of government guarantees given to it since 2007.
Continue reading Things fall apart at South African Airways- A retrospective look.
I had a chat with a friend recently who told me that life insurance costs more for men than women. This is so, he argued because ‘men tend to die earlier than women’. I gave it a long thought and said ‘sure’. Continue reading Medical Tests Men Must Have
Blanchard and Miller (2014) argue that the secret of great leaders is that they serve others. Great leaders are also focused on the future and have high levels of credibility. Within that context, Blanchard and Miller (2014, p.6) present the SERVE model, Continue reading Leadership lessons from the President of Tanzania (Part 3 of 3)
‘President Magufuli has started to sweep away the country’s reputation for endemic corruption and poor public service’ Muvunyi (2016). He opines that Dr. Magufuli left no doubt about his aims immediately after he was sworn in. “I’m telling government officers Continue reading Leadership lessons from the President of Tanzania (Part 2 of 3)
Dr. John Pombe Magufuli is the 5th President of Tanzania. He was born on 29 October 1959 and assumed office on 5 November 2015. He succeeded President Jakaya Kikwete. Dr. Magufuli previously worked as the Minister of Works in President Kikwete’s administration. Continue reading Leadership lessons from the President of Tanzania (Part 1 of 3)
If you get frequent, repeated, identical headaches, that is usually on one side of the head and pulsates like a clock from hell you most likely have a migraine headache. These are sometimes blamed on ‘my sinuses’. A migraine headache is made worse by exposure to bright light and loud noise. People with a migraine headache Continue reading Preventing Migraine Headaches
There is a symbiotic relationship between communication and leadership effectiveness. It is therefore not a coincidence that good leaders also tend to be good communicators. Axelrod (2002 p.4) observes that “effective leadership is still largely a matter of communication.” Continue reading The importance of communication to leader effectiveness
I once had a chat with a female colleague who chimed that her husband would generally avoid her once it is a week to her period. The hubby she said had learnt the hard way that just about this time, she becomes very irritable and finds every discussion a basis for confrontation. She said she felt the difference too. Continue reading The women who are irritable certain periods of every month
I was driving towards the anatomy building as an undergrad when I was flagged down by a friend that a colleague of ours had been struck dead by lightning. He was walking towards the university gate on a road Continue reading How to Prevent Being Struck By Lightning